Author: LiveABC編輯群
Publisher: 希伯崙股份有限公司
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
適用對象:國中小學生~成人,英語基礎初學者 ABC互動英語雜誌專為初學者所編訂,是打好英語基礎的最佳選擇,內容活潑、實用、有趣,以圖解式情境教學,讓學英語像學母語一樣輕鬆自然,終結您英語學習的痛苦! ►購買完整紙本書請上:https://goo.gl/KB3Ia0 圖解字典 At a Library 圖書館 本月焦點 Using a Library 第一次借書就上手 品格英語 Mind Your Manners 禮儀的重要 名人傳記 Marie Curie: A Scientist like No Other 居禮夫人:偉大的女性科學家 世界好望角 International Women’s Day: A Day for Celebrating Women 國際婦女節:為女性發聲 英語愛說笑 A Job Interview 面試必殺記 流行最前線 Save Our Planet by Going Green 綠色生活從你我開始 文法補給站 Grammar Station 可數名詞與不可數名詞 安妮信箱 My Habits 我的習慣 活用ABC Shopping at a Supermarket 超市購物實用英語 短篇故事集 The Tigress Witch 虎姑婆 克漏字測驗 The Golden Rule 生活中的黃金法則 一本好書 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 《湯姆歷險記》 悠遊文化 The Pigeon Post 飛鴿傳書的由來 閱讀技巧 Reading Skill 瞭解時間先後順序 聽說圖寫 Bus News 公車資訊 本月之星 Rainie Yang 楊丞琳 Shopping at a Supermarket 超市購物實用英語 Part A: At the Deli Counter Emma is picking up some things at the deli counter. 愛瑪在熟食櫃檯選購食品。 (Emma = E ; Clerk = C) E: Hi, I’d like a pound each of the ham and turkey. C: Sure. How thin do you want me to cut them? E: They’ll be for sandwiches, so not too thin. C: OK. Can I suggest some black pepper cheese? It would go great with your ham and turkey. E: I don’t know. How does it taste? C: I quite like it. Here, try some for yourself. (He gives Emma a small piece.) E: Ooh, that is good. Please give me a pound of that, too. C: You got it! Part A:購買熟食 愛瑪:你好,我要火腿和火雞肉各一磅。 店員:好。要切多薄呢? 愛瑪:那些是做三明治用的,所以不要太薄。 店員:好。我可以為您推薦一些黑胡椒起司嗎?和您買的火腿與火雞肉搭起來會很好吃。 愛瑪:我不知道耶,味道吃起來怎麼樣? 店員:我個人滿喜歡的。來,您自己試吃看看。 (他給愛瑪一小塊起司。) 愛瑪:喔,好吃耶。那麻煩也給我一磅的起司。 店員:沒問題! Part B: Asking for Help Joel is asking a clerk for help. 喬爾向店員請求協助。 (Joel = J ; Clerk = C) J: Excuse me, do you guys sell soy sauce? C: Yes. It’s with the oil and vinegar in the next aisle. Are you looking for something specific? J: Yes. My wife wants me to pick up a bottle of Soyful Life. C: I’m not sure if we have that kind. Come with me and we’ll look for it together. J: Oh, I didn’t mean to take you from your work. I can try to find it myself. C: You didn’t. It’s part of my job. J: Thanks a lot. C: You’re welcome. I like helping people. Part B:尋求協助 喬爾:請問你們有賣醬油嗎? 店員:有。醬油與食用油和醋在下一條走道。您要找什麼特定的牌子嗎? 喬爾:是的。我太太要我買一瓶醬味人生。 店員:我不確定我們是否有賣那個牌子,跟我來,我們一起找找看。 喬爾:喔,我不是有意要妨礙妳工作的,我可以自己找。 店員:沒關係,這是我份內的工作。 喬爾:非常感謝。 店員:不客氣,我喜歡幫助別人。 Part C: At the Checkout Counter Emma is checking out at the checkout counter. 愛瑪在結帳櫃檯結帳。 (Clerk = C ; Emma = E) C: Good afternoon, are you an ABC Market member? E: I am, but I left my card at home. C: Not a problem. I can also enter your telephone number. E: That’s good to know. My number is 2878-6688. C: Thank you. Do you need any bags today? There’s a small charge for each one. E: No thanks, I always bring my own shopping bags. C: Great! Your total comes to NT$888. How would you like to pay? E: Cash. Also, please put the change in the donation box for me, thanks. Part C:結帳收銀 店員:午安,您是ABC超市的會員嗎? 愛瑪:對,可是我的會員卡放在家裡了。 店員:沒關係,我也可以輸入您的電話號碼。 愛瑪:真高興知道這件事。我的電話號碼是2878-6688。 店員:謝謝。您今天需要袋子嗎?每個袋子會酌收一點費用。 愛瑪:不用,謝謝。我都會自備購物袋。 店員:好的!您的總金額是八百八十八元。請問要如何付款? 愛瑪:付現。還有,請幫我把找零放進捐款箱裡,謝謝。
ABC互動英語 2020年 3 月號 No.213 【有聲版】【基礎、活用】
Author: LiveABC編輯群
Publisher: 希伯崙股份有限公司
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
適用對象:國中小學生~成人,英語基礎初學者 ABC互動英語雜誌專為初學者所編訂,是打好英語基礎的最佳選擇,內容活潑、實用、有趣,以圖解式情境教學,讓學英語像學母語一樣輕鬆自然,終結您英語學習的痛苦! ►購買完整紙本書請上:https://goo.gl/KB3Ia0 圖解字典 At a Library 圖書館 本月焦點 Using a Library 第一次借書就上手 品格英語 Mind Your Manners 禮儀的重要 名人傳記 Marie Curie: A Scientist like No Other 居禮夫人:偉大的女性科學家 世界好望角 International Women’s Day: A Day for Celebrating Women 國際婦女節:為女性發聲 英語愛說笑 A Job Interview 面試必殺記 流行最前線 Save Our Planet by Going Green 綠色生活從你我開始 文法補給站 Grammar Station 可數名詞與不可數名詞 安妮信箱 My Habits 我的習慣 活用ABC Shopping at a Supermarket 超市購物實用英語 短篇故事集 The Tigress Witch 虎姑婆 克漏字測驗 The Golden Rule 生活中的黃金法則 一本好書 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 《湯姆歷險記》 悠遊文化 The Pigeon Post 飛鴿傳書的由來 閱讀技巧 Reading Skill 瞭解時間先後順序 聽說圖寫 Bus News 公車資訊 本月之星 Rainie Yang 楊丞琳 Shopping at a Supermarket 超市購物實用英語 Part A: At the Deli Counter Emma is picking up some things at the deli counter. 愛瑪在熟食櫃檯選購食品。 (Emma = E ; Clerk = C) E: Hi, I’d like a pound each of the ham and turkey. C: Sure. How thin do you want me to cut them? E: They’ll be for sandwiches, so not too thin. C: OK. Can I suggest some black pepper cheese? It would go great with your ham and turkey. E: I don’t know. How does it taste? C: I quite like it. Here, try some for yourself. (He gives Emma a small piece.) E: Ooh, that is good. Please give me a pound of that, too. C: You got it! Part A:購買熟食 愛瑪:你好,我要火腿和火雞肉各一磅。 店員:好。要切多薄呢? 愛瑪:那些是做三明治用的,所以不要太薄。 店員:好。我可以為您推薦一些黑胡椒起司嗎?和您買的火腿與火雞肉搭起來會很好吃。 愛瑪:我不知道耶,味道吃起來怎麼樣? 店員:我個人滿喜歡的。來,您自己試吃看看。 (他給愛瑪一小塊起司。) 愛瑪:喔,好吃耶。那麻煩也給我一磅的起司。 店員:沒問題! Part B: Asking for Help Joel is asking a clerk for help. 喬爾向店員請求協助。 (Joel = J ; Clerk = C) J: Excuse me, do you guys sell soy sauce? C: Yes. It’s with the oil and vinegar in the next aisle. Are you looking for something specific? J: Yes. My wife wants me to pick up a bottle of Soyful Life. C: I’m not sure if we have that kind. Come with me and we’ll look for it together. J: Oh, I didn’t mean to take you from your work. I can try to find it myself. C: You didn’t. It’s part of my job. J: Thanks a lot. C: You’re welcome. I like helping people. Part B:尋求協助 喬爾:請問你們有賣醬油嗎? 店員:有。醬油與食用油和醋在下一條走道。您要找什麼特定的牌子嗎? 喬爾:是的。我太太要我買一瓶醬味人生。 店員:我不確定我們是否有賣那個牌子,跟我來,我們一起找找看。 喬爾:喔,我不是有意要妨礙妳工作的,我可以自己找。 店員:沒關係,這是我份內的工作。 喬爾:非常感謝。 店員:不客氣,我喜歡幫助別人。 Part C: At the Checkout Counter Emma is checking out at the checkout counter. 愛瑪在結帳櫃檯結帳。 (Clerk = C ; Emma = E) C: Good afternoon, are you an ABC Market member? E: I am, but I left my card at home. C: Not a problem. I can also enter your telephone number. E: That’s good to know. My number is 2878-6688. C: Thank you. Do you need any bags today? There’s a small charge for each one. E: No thanks, I always bring my own shopping bags. C: Great! Your total comes to NT$888. How would you like to pay? E: Cash. Also, please put the change in the donation box for me, thanks. Part C:結帳收銀 店員:午安,您是ABC超市的會員嗎? 愛瑪:對,可是我的會員卡放在家裡了。 店員:沒關係,我也可以輸入您的電話號碼。 愛瑪:真高興知道這件事。我的電話號碼是2878-6688。 店員:謝謝。您今天需要袋子嗎?每個袋子會酌收一點費用。 愛瑪:不用,謝謝。我都會自備購物袋。 店員:好的!您的總金額是八百八十八元。請問要如何付款? 愛瑪:付現。還有,請幫我把找零放進捐款箱裡,謝謝。
Publisher: 希伯崙股份有限公司
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
適用對象:國中小學生~成人,英語基礎初學者 ABC互動英語雜誌專為初學者所編訂,是打好英語基礎的最佳選擇,內容活潑、實用、有趣,以圖解式情境教學,讓學英語像學母語一樣輕鬆自然,終結您英語學習的痛苦! ►購買完整紙本書請上:https://goo.gl/KB3Ia0 圖解字典 At a Library 圖書館 本月焦點 Using a Library 第一次借書就上手 品格英語 Mind Your Manners 禮儀的重要 名人傳記 Marie Curie: A Scientist like No Other 居禮夫人:偉大的女性科學家 世界好望角 International Women’s Day: A Day for Celebrating Women 國際婦女節:為女性發聲 英語愛說笑 A Job Interview 面試必殺記 流行最前線 Save Our Planet by Going Green 綠色生活從你我開始 文法補給站 Grammar Station 可數名詞與不可數名詞 安妮信箱 My Habits 我的習慣 活用ABC Shopping at a Supermarket 超市購物實用英語 短篇故事集 The Tigress Witch 虎姑婆 克漏字測驗 The Golden Rule 生活中的黃金法則 一本好書 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 《湯姆歷險記》 悠遊文化 The Pigeon Post 飛鴿傳書的由來 閱讀技巧 Reading Skill 瞭解時間先後順序 聽說圖寫 Bus News 公車資訊 本月之星 Rainie Yang 楊丞琳 Shopping at a Supermarket 超市購物實用英語 Part A: At the Deli Counter Emma is picking up some things at the deli counter. 愛瑪在熟食櫃檯選購食品。 (Emma = E ; Clerk = C) E: Hi, I’d like a pound each of the ham and turkey. C: Sure. How thin do you want me to cut them? E: They’ll be for sandwiches, so not too thin. C: OK. Can I suggest some black pepper cheese? It would go great with your ham and turkey. E: I don’t know. How does it taste? C: I quite like it. Here, try some for yourself. (He gives Emma a small piece.) E: Ooh, that is good. Please give me a pound of that, too. C: You got it! Part A:購買熟食 愛瑪:你好,我要火腿和火雞肉各一磅。 店員:好。要切多薄呢? 愛瑪:那些是做三明治用的,所以不要太薄。 店員:好。我可以為您推薦一些黑胡椒起司嗎?和您買的火腿與火雞肉搭起來會很好吃。 愛瑪:我不知道耶,味道吃起來怎麼樣? 店員:我個人滿喜歡的。來,您自己試吃看看。 (他給愛瑪一小塊起司。) 愛瑪:喔,好吃耶。那麻煩也給我一磅的起司。 店員:沒問題! Part B: Asking for Help Joel is asking a clerk for help. 喬爾向店員請求協助。 (Joel = J ; Clerk = C) J: Excuse me, do you guys sell soy sauce? C: Yes. It’s with the oil and vinegar in the next aisle. Are you looking for something specific? J: Yes. My wife wants me to pick up a bottle of Soyful Life. C: I’m not sure if we have that kind. Come with me and we’ll look for it together. J: Oh, I didn’t mean to take you from your work. I can try to find it myself. C: You didn’t. It’s part of my job. J: Thanks a lot. C: You’re welcome. I like helping people. Part B:尋求協助 喬爾:請問你們有賣醬油嗎? 店員:有。醬油與食用油和醋在下一條走道。您要找什麼特定的牌子嗎? 喬爾:是的。我太太要我買一瓶醬味人生。 店員:我不確定我們是否有賣那個牌子,跟我來,我們一起找找看。 喬爾:喔,我不是有意要妨礙妳工作的,我可以自己找。 店員:沒關係,這是我份內的工作。 喬爾:非常感謝。 店員:不客氣,我喜歡幫助別人。 Part C: At the Checkout Counter Emma is checking out at the checkout counter. 愛瑪在結帳櫃檯結帳。 (Clerk = C ; Emma = E) C: Good afternoon, are you an ABC Market member? E: I am, but I left my card at home. C: Not a problem. I can also enter your telephone number. E: That’s good to know. My number is 2878-6688. C: Thank you. Do you need any bags today? There’s a small charge for each one. E: No thanks, I always bring my own shopping bags. C: Great! Your total comes to NT$888. How would you like to pay? E: Cash. Also, please put the change in the donation box for me, thanks. Part C:結帳收銀 店員:午安,您是ABC超市的會員嗎? 愛瑪:對,可是我的會員卡放在家裡了。 店員:沒關係,我也可以輸入您的電話號碼。 愛瑪:真高興知道這件事。我的電話號碼是2878-6688。 店員:謝謝。您今天需要袋子嗎?每個袋子會酌收一點費用。 愛瑪:不用,謝謝。我都會自備購物袋。 店員:好的!您的總金額是八百八十八元。請問要如何付款? 愛瑪:付現。還有,請幫我把找零放進捐款箱裡,謝謝。
List of Proprietary Substances and Nonfood Compounds Authorized for Use Under USDA Inspection and Grading Programs
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Category : Chemicals
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Category : Chemicals
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Miscellaneous Publication
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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List of Chemical Compounds Authorized for Use Under USDA Inspection and Grading Programs
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Category : Egg products industry
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Category : Egg products industry
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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A Transition to Sustainable Housing
Author: Trivess Moore
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819927609
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to help facilitate a sustainable housing transition and a range of contemporary case studies are explored on issues including high performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighbourhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. It is an important new resource that challenges policy makers, planners, housing construction industry stakeholders, and researchers to rethink what housing is, how we design and construct it, and how we can better integrate impacts on households to wider policy development.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819927609
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to help facilitate a sustainable housing transition and a range of contemporary case studies are explored on issues including high performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighbourhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. It is an important new resource that challenges policy makers, planners, housing construction industry stakeholders, and researchers to rethink what housing is, how we design and construct it, and how we can better integrate impacts on households to wider policy development.
The Age of Resilience
Author: Jeremy Rifkin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250093554
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our species will thrive on an unpredictable Earth. The viruses keep coming, the climate is warming, and the Earth is rewilding. Our human family has no playbook to address the mayhem unfolding around us. If there is a change to reckon with, argues the renowned economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, it’s that we are beginning to realize that the human race never had dominion over the Earth and that nature is far more formidable than we thought, while our species seems much smaller and less significant in the bigger picture of life on Earth, undermining our long-cherished worldview. The Age of Progress, once considered sacrosanct, is on a deathwatch while a powerful new narrative, the Age of Resilience, is ascending. In The Age of Resilience, Rifkin takes us on a new journey beginning with how we reconceptualize time and navigate space. During the Age of Progress, efficiency was the gold standard for organizing time, locking our species into the quest to optimize the expropriation, commodification, and consumption of the Earth’s bounty, at ever-greater speeds and in ever-shrinking time intervals, with the objective of increasing the opulence of human society, but at the expense of the depletion of nature. Space, observes Rifkin, became synonymous with passive natural resources, while a principal role of government and the economy was to manage nature as property. This long adhered to temporal-spatial orientation, writes Rifkin, has taken humanity to the commanding heights as the dominant species on Earth and to the ruin of the natural world. In the emerging era, says Rifkin, efficiency is giving way to adaptivity as the all-encompassing temporal value while space is perceived as animated, self-organizing, and fluid. A younger generation, in turn, is pivoting from growth to flourishing, finance capital to ecological capital, productivity to regenerativity, Gross Domestic Product to Quality of Life Indicators, hyper-consumption to eco-stewardship, globalization to glocalization, geopolitics to biosphere politics, nation-state sovereignty to bioregional governance, and representative democracy to citizen assemblies and distributed peerocracy. Future generations, suggests Rifkin, will likely experience existence less as objects and structures and more as patterns and processes and come to understand that each of us is literally an ecosystem made up of the microorganisms and elements that comprise the hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. The autonomous self of the Age of Progress is giving way to the ecological self of the Age of Resilience. The now worn scientific method that underwrote the Age of Progress is also falling by the wayside, making room for a new approach to science called Complex Adaptive Systems modeling. Likewise, detached reason is losing cachet while empathy and biophilia become the norm. At a moment when the human family is deeply despairing of the future, Rifkin gives us a window into a promising new world and a radically different future that can bring us back into nature’s fold, giving life a second chance to flourish on Earth.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250093554
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our species will thrive on an unpredictable Earth. The viruses keep coming, the climate is warming, and the Earth is rewilding. Our human family has no playbook to address the mayhem unfolding around us. If there is a change to reckon with, argues the renowned economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, it’s that we are beginning to realize that the human race never had dominion over the Earth and that nature is far more formidable than we thought, while our species seems much smaller and less significant in the bigger picture of life on Earth, undermining our long-cherished worldview. The Age of Progress, once considered sacrosanct, is on a deathwatch while a powerful new narrative, the Age of Resilience, is ascending. In The Age of Resilience, Rifkin takes us on a new journey beginning with how we reconceptualize time and navigate space. During the Age of Progress, efficiency was the gold standard for organizing time, locking our species into the quest to optimize the expropriation, commodification, and consumption of the Earth’s bounty, at ever-greater speeds and in ever-shrinking time intervals, with the objective of increasing the opulence of human society, but at the expense of the depletion of nature. Space, observes Rifkin, became synonymous with passive natural resources, while a principal role of government and the economy was to manage nature as property. This long adhered to temporal-spatial orientation, writes Rifkin, has taken humanity to the commanding heights as the dominant species on Earth and to the ruin of the natural world. In the emerging era, says Rifkin, efficiency is giving way to adaptivity as the all-encompassing temporal value while space is perceived as animated, self-organizing, and fluid. A younger generation, in turn, is pivoting from growth to flourishing, finance capital to ecological capital, productivity to regenerativity, Gross Domestic Product to Quality of Life Indicators, hyper-consumption to eco-stewardship, globalization to glocalization, geopolitics to biosphere politics, nation-state sovereignty to bioregional governance, and representative democracy to citizen assemblies and distributed peerocracy. Future generations, suggests Rifkin, will likely experience existence less as objects and structures and more as patterns and processes and come to understand that each of us is literally an ecosystem made up of the microorganisms and elements that comprise the hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. The autonomous self of the Age of Progress is giving way to the ecological self of the Age of Resilience. The now worn scientific method that underwrote the Age of Progress is also falling by the wayside, making room for a new approach to science called Complex Adaptive Systems modeling. Likewise, detached reason is losing cachet while empathy and biophilia become the norm. At a moment when the human family is deeply despairing of the future, Rifkin gives us a window into a promising new world and a radically different future that can bring us back into nature’s fold, giving life a second chance to flourish on Earth.
Before and Beyond the 'Big Society'
Author: Joseph Forde
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227177797
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
John Milbank's theology has shaped much modern political thinking both within and without the Church. In Before and Beyond the 'Big Society', Joseph Forde presents the first study devoted exclusively to John Milbank's theology of welfare, and how it has influenced policy in the Church of England since 2008. By examining the favourable response the Church gave to the 'Big Society' project in 2010-12, Forde shows that Milbank's Blue Socialist fingerprint increasingly dominates. However, this theology has not evolved in a vacuum and Forde expertly places it in its historical and theoretical context. He offers a detailed critical discussion of Milbank's own critique of what has been the mainstream (Temple) Anglican theology of welfare in the Church of England since the 1940s, and a fresh contribution to the assessment of Anglican social theology. Finally, he demonstrates how Milbank's ideas have been furthered by other influential Anglicans. It is this influence that will carry the greatest implications for the Church of England's policy on welfare going forward, making this study relevant to all who care about its contribution to the provision of welfare.
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227177797
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
John Milbank's theology has shaped much modern political thinking both within and without the Church. In Before and Beyond the 'Big Society', Joseph Forde presents the first study devoted exclusively to John Milbank's theology of welfare, and how it has influenced policy in the Church of England since 2008. By examining the favourable response the Church gave to the 'Big Society' project in 2010-12, Forde shows that Milbank's Blue Socialist fingerprint increasingly dominates. However, this theology has not evolved in a vacuum and Forde expertly places it in its historical and theoretical context. He offers a detailed critical discussion of Milbank's own critique of what has been the mainstream (Temple) Anglican theology of welfare in the Church of England since the 1940s, and a fresh contribution to the assessment of Anglican social theology. Finally, he demonstrates how Milbank's ideas have been furthered by other influential Anglicans. It is this influence that will carry the greatest implications for the Church of England's policy on welfare going forward, making this study relevant to all who care about its contribution to the provision of welfare.
The Precipice
Author: Toby Ord
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 031648489X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
In this urgent and “thrillingly written” book, there is a case and solution for humanity’s last shot at survival (Sunday Times). Humanity’s future is at risk. We face existential catastrophes, climate change, nuclear war, and more. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. "A book that seems made for the present moment." —New Yorker
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 031648489X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
In this urgent and “thrillingly written” book, there is a case and solution for humanity’s last shot at survival (Sunday Times). Humanity’s future is at risk. We face existential catastrophes, climate change, nuclear war, and more. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. "A book that seems made for the present moment." —New Yorker
Regenesis
Author: George Monbiot
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525507566
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism | A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller | Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation “George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today.” —Greta Thunberg For the first time in millennia, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world. Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction—and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticize urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have plowed, fenced, and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry and the price of food is rising faster than ever. Now the food system itself is beginning to falter. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, we can resolve the biggest of our dilemmas and feed the world without devouring the planet. Regenesis is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and for humanity. Drawing on astonishing advances in soil ecology, Monbiot reveals how our changing understanding of the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming. He meets the people who are unlocking these methods, from the fruit and vegetable grower revolutionizing our understanding of fertility; through breeders of perennial grains, liberating the land from plows and poisons; to the scientists pioneering new ways to grow protein and fat. Together, they show how the tiniest life forms could help us make peace with the planet, restore its living systems, and replace the age of extinction with an age of regenesis.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525507566
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism | A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller | Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation “George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today.” —Greta Thunberg For the first time in millennia, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world. Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction—and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticize urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have plowed, fenced, and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry and the price of food is rising faster than ever. Now the food system itself is beginning to falter. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, we can resolve the biggest of our dilemmas and feed the world without devouring the planet. Regenesis is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and for humanity. Drawing on astonishing advances in soil ecology, Monbiot reveals how our changing understanding of the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming. He meets the people who are unlocking these methods, from the fruit and vegetable grower revolutionizing our understanding of fertility; through breeders of perennial grains, liberating the land from plows and poisons; to the scientists pioneering new ways to grow protein and fat. Together, they show how the tiniest life forms could help us make peace with the planet, restore its living systems, and replace the age of extinction with an age of regenesis.
Tulsa Race Riot
Author: Oklahoma Commission to Riot of 1921
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530785001
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 was the worst civil disturbance since the Civil War. On May 21, 1921, a group of white Oklahomans attacked the prosperous African American community, called the Greenwood District or "the Black Wall Street" in Tulsa, OK over the alleged assault of a white woman by a black man. 24 hours later more than 800 people were admitted to local hospitals, 10,000 residents were homeless, and 35 city blocks were reduced to rubble. The monetary cost of the riot was later estimated to be 26 million dollars. This report examines the events leading up to the riot, the riot itself, and the consideration of reparations for the victims.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530785001
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 was the worst civil disturbance since the Civil War. On May 21, 1921, a group of white Oklahomans attacked the prosperous African American community, called the Greenwood District or "the Black Wall Street" in Tulsa, OK over the alleged assault of a white woman by a black man. 24 hours later more than 800 people were admitted to local hospitals, 10,000 residents were homeless, and 35 city blocks were reduced to rubble. The monetary cost of the riot was later estimated to be 26 million dollars. This report examines the events leading up to the riot, the riot itself, and the consideration of reparations for the victims.